The story of Potosí, a virtual mountain of silver whose revelation made world news and became a secular icon after an Andean prospector named Diego Gualpa struck pay dirt high on its flanks in 1545.
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the 2019 American Anthropological Association conference in Vancouver, Canada. Check for other posts from the conference, and if you are attending #AAACASCA2019, don’t miss Christian Zlolniski’s panel “Familiar Strangers: …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Boston. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2019 The following excerpt is from Abstract Crossings: Cultural Exchange between Argentina and Brazil by …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Boston. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2019y By Alyshia Gálvez, author ofEating NAFTA:Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Boston. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2019 By Alexander S. Dawson, author of The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Boston. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2019 By Greg Beckett, author of There Is No More Haiti: Between Life …
Read More >Attending the Latin American Studies Association conference in Boston? No doubt your schedule is already jam packed, but make sure to stop by the UC Press booth (#BH10) to save 40% on new …
Read More >In celebration of #HispanicHeritageMonth, we’re giving you a sneak peak at the first issue of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (LALVC), which is scheduled to publish its inaugural issue in January 2019. …
Read More >This guest post is published around the Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society in Madison, WI, occurring June …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Barcelona. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2018 by Matías Vernengo, co-editor of Why Latin American Nations Fail: Development Strategies in the …
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